Are you getting ready to embark on your first ever trip, or are you preparing to head out on your second, third or one-hundredth world adventure? You’ve come to the right place. On this page you’ll find all of the information that you need for saving, budgeting and packing for your next big travel experience.
Planning
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How to Choose the Best Backpack for Tr...
How to Choose the Best Backpack for Travel When travelling the world, your backpack will be your best friend. But, choose the wrong pack, and it could end up being... READ MORE -
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ult...
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide How do I quit my job and travel forever? How can I possibly save enough money for travel? What are the regulations about... READ MORE -
Travel Advice For Beginners: a Guide t...
Travel Advice For Beginners: a Guide to Airports, Documents & Flying There are numerous things to think about when planning to go on a trip. It may sound simple enough – book a flight... READ MORE -
How to Avoid Looking Like a Tourist in...
How to Avoid Looking Like a Tourist in a Foreign Country So you’re gearing up for a trip abroad. Exciting! Chances are you find yourself daydreaming about what to pack, wh... READ MORE -
5 Reasons Why You Should Use a VPN Whi...
5 Reasons Why You Should Use a VPN While Travelling As digital nomads, we’re constantly on the go and find ourselves stamping in to at least 10 different countries ev... READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have ...
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money You don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can travel wit... READ MORE -
Why Google Flights is The Best Thing T...
Why Google Flights is The Best Thing To Hit The Web Since Google First I have to say that finding Google Flights was one of the most exciting things we’ve discovered online since... READ MORE -
10 Useful Apps That You Should Downloa...
10 Useful Apps That You Should Download Before You Travel During our first couple of backpacking trips around the world, we didn’t have any “techy” stuff... READ MORE -
The Art Of Snail Travel: 5 Reasons To ...
The Art Of Snail Travel: 5 Reasons To Take Your Sweet Time Are you an active person? Love to see as much as you can in a short period of time? That’s great. But have you eve... READ MORE -
Why World Nomads Is The Best Travel In...
Why World Nomads Is The Best Travel Insurance For Backpackers Choosing a travel insurance company can seem like a daunting task, especially when you’re already spending a ton o... READ MORE -
13 Things You Need to Be Smarter About...
13 Things You Need to Be Smarter About When Planning a Trip  Planning a holiday can be wildly invigorating – there are new destinations to discover, cool attractions to check out an... READ MORE -
5 Ways To Ruin A Perfectly Good Trip (...
5 Ways To Ruin A Perfectly Good Trip (and How to Avoid Them) You’ve got your flights booked and your destination(s) planned. Everything is ready to go and you’re excited for your ne... READ MORE -
Preparing For A World Trip: The Travel...
Preparing For A World Trip: The Traveller’s Check-list Are you planning to drop everything and travel the world for a month, a year or a decade? Surely you’ve been brows... READ MORE -
Car Rental Travel: A New Level Of Free...
Car Rental Travel: A New Level Of Freedom There is something to be said about the freedom that a rented car can afford a traveller. We absolutely love travelling... READ MORE -
Should You Travel With A Tour Group, A...
Should You Travel With A Tour Group, A Guide, or Neither? There are three main ways to travel: With a tour group, with just you and a guide, or, independently. Here we’ll e... READ MORE
Packing
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8 Cool Gadgets to Charge Your Electron...
8 Cool Gadgets to Charge Your Electronics While Travelling As the old saying goes: “never forget your A-B-C’s” (Always Be Charging). Whether you’re a digit... READ MORE -
The Ultimate Packing List for Full-Tim...
The Ultimate Packing List for Full-Time Travellers It’s one thing to pack your backpack and set off on a trip to a specific destination, or one region of the world,... READ MORE -
How to Choose the Best Backpack for Tr...
How to Choose the Best Backpack for Travel When travelling the world, your backpack will be your best friend. But, choose the wrong pack, and it could end up being... READ MORE -
10 Travel Items You Should Never Forge...
10 Travel Items You Should Never Forget to Pack This article was submitted by Bree Weidman. Read more about Bree in the Author’s Bio at the bottom of this post. T... READ MORE -
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers S...
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should Have These days, more than ever, people want to save money wherever possible. Travel can be an expensive hobby, but luckily,... READ MORE -
Best Gear For Travel Videos - Our Kit ...
Best Gear For Travel Videos – Our Kit & How We Pack It We’ve already covered how to travel with a drone in previous articles and videos, but we actually carry a lot more... READ MORE -
13 Essential Items That Everyone Shoul...
13 Essential Items That Everyone Should Travel With Depending on where your travels will take you, and which activities you are planning to do, your packing list and must-h... READ MORE -
Travelling With A Drone: How We Carry ...
Travelling With A Drone: How We Carry It, What it Costs, The Cons & The Pay-offs As you know from our YouTube channel, we’ve been travelling with a drone for a few months now. The drone definitel... READ MORE -
Living With Less, But Having More
Living With Less, But Having More As we packed up our lives in Grenada to set off on our next adventure, we became very aware of just how few possessions... READ MORE -
Backpack Review: Osprey Farpoint 55L
Backpack Review: Osprey Farpoint 55L Today I’ll be reviewing my current backpack, the Osprey Farpoint 55L. I’ve taken this pack on enough treks n... READ MORE -
A Guide To Must-Have Travel Electronic...
A Guide To Must-Have Travel Electronics for the Modern Nomad I can’t even imagine what travel must have been like years ago when the original, hardcore backpackers blazed the... READ MORE -
Backpack Review: Osprey Kestrel 32
Backpack Review: Osprey Kestrel 32 It’s time to review my current backpack, the Osprey Kestrel 32. Having a backpack that fits properly and is geared... READ MORE -
What To Pack For A Camping and Trekkin...
What To Pack For A Camping and Trekking Trip Since upgrading our backpacks and joining the ultralight world of backpacking and travel, we’ve also changed our p... READ MORE -
Ultralight Travel: Revamping Our Backp...
Ultralight Travel: Revamping Our Backpacking Gear During our previous trips around the world, we have traveled with a Deuter Traveler 70L Backpack (Nick’s) and a ME... READ MORE -
The Complete Travel Packing List For M...
The Complete Travel Packing List For Men We’ve written about what we consider to be “backpack essentials” for a trip around the world, we... READ MORE
Saving & Budgeting
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Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide ...
Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide to Saving Thousands on Travel In February of 2014 I flew from South Florida to Hong Kong on United Airlines (don’t worry, I didn’t get dra... READ MORE -
How We Saved $40,000 For a Year of Tra...
How We Saved $40,000 For a Year of Travel We are constantly asked how we saved enough money to travel, which is a legitimate question! We were recently featured o... READ MORE -
10 Ways to Save Money for a World Trip
10 Ways to Save Money for a World Trip If your travel wishes exceed your budget, don’t toss your passport aside in frustration. Instead, create a monthly... READ MORE -
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers S...
7 Budget-Saving Items All Travellers Should Have These days, more than ever, people want to save money wherever possible. Travel can be an expensive hobby, but luckily,... READ MORE -
7 Tips To Save $15,000 For Travel in J...
7 Tips To Save $15,000 For Travel in Just One Year Saving money isn’t always easy, but even if you think that you can’t save a penny, you probably can. All you... READ MORE -
Our Location Independent Lifestyle: Wh...
Our Location Independent Lifestyle: What Does It Cost? Before going into detail about how much our lifestyle costs us each month, it’s probably a good idea to talk about... READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have ...
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money You don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can travel wit... READ MORE -
Medical Tourism: What it is, and Why Y...
Medical Tourism: What it is, and Why You Should Utilize it What is medical tourism? “Medical Tourism is a growing concept worldwide where people travel to another country fo... READ MORE -
How To Travel Anywhere For Less Than $...
How To Travel Anywhere For Less Than $100 A Week! This article is by our friend Will over at TheBrokeBackpacker.com, an awesome website dedicated to budget travel and inc... READ MORE -
10 Travel Tips For Saving Money
10 Travel Tips For Saving Money There are loads of tips for saving money while travelling. We’ve extended our trips 2-3 months longer in the past by fol... READ MORE -
Our Daily Budget For Every Country Weâ...
Our Daily Budget For Every Country We’ve Visited We’ve travelled through 35 countries and kept to a very typical backpacker budget in all places. We thought we... READ MORE -
Budget Backpacking: Tips For Saving Mo...
Budget Backpacking: Tips For Saving Money As budget backpackers, one of the first things people ask us when we meet them is: “How are you able to afford to travel... READ MORE
Inspiration
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Why This UK Couple is Still Travelling...
Why This UK Couple is Still Travelling in Their Mid-Thirties When we first went travelling together all the way back in 2005, it was the thing to do at that time in our lives. We ha... READ MORE -
5 Trips and Experiences We've Been Dre...
5 Trips and Experiences We’ve Been Dreaming Of During our 8 years of travel, we’ve seen some mesmerizing sights, met some wonderful people and had some life-chan... READ MORE -
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ult...
How To Quit Your Job & Travel: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide How do I quit my job and travel forever? How can I possibly save enough money for travel? What are the regulations about... READ MORE -
16 Epic Adventures To Have in 2016
16 Epic Adventures To Have in 2016 The new year is just around the corner, and if you’re a culture-crazed, food-freak, adventure-junky, travel-lover... READ MORE -
Personal Legends: The Roadmaps to Happ...
Personal Legends: The Roadmaps to Happiness Life is all about personal growth and evolution. If we remain stagnant for too long, both physically, and emotionally, h... READ MORE -
How To Travel The World When You Have ...
How To Travel The World When You Have Absolutely No Money You don’t have to be rich to travel. In fact, if you’re extremely savvy in your approach, you can travel wit... READ MORE -
Taking The Leap Into A Life Without Ch...
Taking The Leap Into A Life Without Chores When I look back at my existence before I left Canada to pursue this dream of travel & adventure, I see a life full... READ MORE -
27 Inspiring Photos That Will Motivate...
27 Inspiring Photos That Will Motivate You to Become a Digital Nomad Today There are photo stories published every day on the internet. Most are full of fascinating pictures that make you want to... READ MORE -
Becoming a Divemaster - The Ultimate U...
Becoming a Divemaster – The Ultimate Underwater Job This is a guest post from the adventurous Sarah over at Coffee With a Slice of Life. We’re stoked that she wanted... READ MORE -
The Ultimate Guide To An Early Retirem...
The Ultimate Guide To An Early Retirement To all of you Canadians out there who are counting your RRSPs, GICs, CPPs and every other acronym that represents your l... READ MORE -
5 Dream Destinations That Are On Our T...
5 Dream Destinations That Are On Our Travel Bucketlist With it being winter time in many parts of the world, and with holidays just around the corner, we thought we’d sh... READ MORE -
Living With Less, But Having More
Living With Less, But Having More As we packed up our lives in Grenada to set off on our next adventure, we became very aware of just how few possessions... READ MORE -
My Realization of The Law Of Attractio...
My Realization of The Law Of Attraction & The Power of Positive Thought A few years ago, when I was hard at work grinding away at my job as a press operator, I honestly believed that everythin... READ MORE -
Owning a Business & Living the Dream: ...
Owning a Business & Living the Dream: An Inspirational Interview with Darryl Kotyk There are so many inspirational, influential people that we’ve come into contact with, either during our travels,... READ MORE -
How Living in Grenada Has Changed Our ...
How Living in Grenada Has Changed Our Lives As I’m sitting here writing this article, the wind is blowing the palm trees from side to side, Spare Dog is curle... READ MORE
Travel Tips
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Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide ...
Travel Hacking for Beginners: A Guide to Saving Thousands on Travel In February of 2014 I flew from South Florida to Hong Kong on United Airlines (don’t worry, I didn’t get dra... READ MORE -
How to Score Massive Savings on Hotels...
How to Score Massive Savings on Hotels with Sears Vacations Anything that makes travel cheaper is a good thing in our books, especially when it amounts to significant savings on yo... READ MORE -
9 Beautiful Apartments We've Rented Ar...
9 Beautiful Apartments We’ve Rented Around The World We love renting apartments around the world. It gives us the opportunity to live like a local and spend a bit of extra t... READ MORE -
The Best Ways to Backup Your Photos an...
The Best Ways to Backup Your Photos and Why You Need to When it comes to backing photos up, many people seem to have a fly by night, devil-may-care attitude. “It’ll never happe... READ MORE -
Visiting a Doctor Abroad: My Experienc...
Visiting a Doctor Abroad: My Experience in Buenos Aires Going to the hospital is scary. Whether you’re visiting the hospital in your home country, or abroad, the experien... READ MORE -
Essential Travel Apps to Use on the Ro...
Essential Travel Apps to Use on the Road When you’re out exploring the world a smartphone can help to enhance your travelling experience if used in the rig... READ MORE -
How To Avoid Being Ripped Off By Taxi ...
How To Avoid Being Ripped Off By Taxi Drivers From New Delhi to Sydney, every city has its fair share of taxi drivers intent on ripping off tourists. That’s not to sa... READ MORE -
8 Months of Travelling, 3 Life Lessons...
8 Months of Travelling, 3 Life Lessons Learnt Before embarking on our travels with just a one way ticket, we had no idea what the future held for us. We thought we we... READ MORE -
5 Ways To Save Money on Airfare
5 Ways To Save Money on Airfare Whenever you sit down on a plane, there’s a good chance that the person sitting next to you paid far less than you... READ MORE -
10 Useful Tips For Your Next Trip
10 Useful Tips For Your Next Trip We’ve been travelling the world for over six years now and have learned many tips, tricks and hacks along the way.... READ MORE -
Why Google Flights is The Best Thing T...
Why Google Flights is The Best Thing To Hit The Web Since Google First I have to say that finding Google Flights was one of the most exciting things we’ve discovered online since... READ MORE -
25 Awesome Travel Hacks That You Will ...
25 Awesome Travel Hacks That You Will Always Use After 5 years spent on the road, we can consider ourselves expert travel hackers. We may not be pros when it comes to ha... READ MORE -
21 Money Saving Hacks For All Travel-R...
21 Money Saving Hacks For All Travel-Related Bookings Online Over the 5 years that we’ve spent travelling the world, we’ve figured out some pretty essential tricks to sa... READ MORE -
5 Ways to Save Thousands of Dollars on...
5 Ways to Save Thousands of Dollars on Accommodation Costs One of the big budget eaters when it comes to travel is accommodation costs. In third world countries, a private room ma... READ MORE -
Top 10: Discount Airlines & Budget Fli...
Top 10: Discount Airlines & Budget Flights Back in the day, it used to be very expensive to fly around the world. These days, the Travel Gods have smiled down at t... READ MORE
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